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Flower Garden is a
solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards. It is not
known why the game is called such, but the terms used in this
game do have any relation to those in gardening and it takes
merit that some skill is needed. It is also known under the
names The Bouquet and The Garden.
Thirty-six cards are dealt in to six columns, each containing
six cards. The columns are called the "flower beds" and the
entire tableau is sometimes called "the garden." The sixteen
leftover cards become the reserve, or "the bouquet."
The top cards of each flower-bed and all of the cards in the
bouquet are available for play. Cards can only be moved one at a
time and can be built either on the foundations or on the other
flower beds. The foundations are built up by suit, from Ace to
King (a general idea of the game is to release the aces
first). The cards in the garden, on the other hand, can be built
down regardless of suit and any empty flower bed can be filled
with any card. The cards in the bouquet can be used to aid in
building, be put into the foundations, or fill an empty flower
bed.
The game is won when all cards end up in the foundations.
There are many keys you can use to make your game playing more efficient:
- Space
- Auto-finish—In foundation games, this moves all the cards it can up to the foundations
- z
- Undo
- x
- Redo
- n
- New Game
- g
- Replay the same game
- f
- Flip a card from the stock
There is also a card-finder keyboard feature you can use to help you locate cards:
- a
- Highlight the aces
- 1 though 9
- Highlight the cards with the rank pressed
- 0 or t
- Highlight the tens
- d, c, h, s
- Highlight the cards with the suit
- r, b
- Highlight the red or black cards
You may combine the rank keys with the suit or color keys. For example, if you hold down the "5" key and
the "d" key then only the 5 of diamonds will be highlighted. "a" and "r" will highlight the red aces.
There are ways to use the mouse to make your game playing more efficient:
- Left Click
- Move the card to the most logical place (might not be the best move, however)
- Left Click in Empty Area
- Auto-finish—In foundation games, this moves all the cards it can up to the foundations
- Right Click
- Undo
You can use super moves to make your game playing more efficient.
Clicking or dragging a card that isn't immediately accessible will attempt to move all the cards
above it in its stack until the move is valid. The effect will be the same as clicking each card. If you
cancel the drag or undo the move, all the cards will go back to where they were.
Dragging a card or cards to the middle of a stack will attempt to move all the cards above the
destination out of the way. The effect is the same as clicking each card. To see where the cards will
move, hold the dragged card(s) at the destination for a second. If you decide to move the dragged
card(s) somewhere else, just drag them there and the other cards will go back to where they
were. Undoing the move will also move the cards back.
If you drag a card or cards to the middle of a stack and the cards that move away would be valid to
move back on top of the dragged card(s), then they'll slide out of the way and let you just slip the
card(s) in.